Making Money Is Killing Your Business, How to Build a Business You'll Love and Have a Life, Too - Second Edition - Hardcover

Chuck Blakeman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0984334327 ISBN 13: 9780984334322

Publisher: Crankset Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Second Edition of the Best Selling, #1 Rated Business Book, Making Money Is Killing Your Business, that has transformed lives and businesses worldwide through five reprints.
You re Too Busy Making Money. No Business Can Survive That.

- Build a business that makes money while you're on vacation

- Get a grip on why businesses never grow up, and how yours can.

- Move your business from survival, through success, to significance.

- Grow a business quickly that you can enjoy for decades.

The Second Edition of Making Money is Killing Your Business is built on profoundly simple ideas that have been around forever and ignored as being too simple to work. Chuck Blakeman has learned the hard way that profound things are always simple. The Four Building Blocks, Seven Stages of Business Ownership, Business Owner's Game, Freedom Mapping, 2pg Strategic Plan, Lifetime Goals and many other practical tools will revolutionize any business willing to give up complexity for effectiveness.

Get off the treadmill. Making Money helps business owners move from a focus on trying to make money to building a business that does it for them when they are not around. It debunks the idea that small business is a 30 year grind, and introduces the concept of building a business in just three to five years that runs itself.

Making Money also replaces the traditional concept of retirement with using your business to quickly build your Ideal Lifestyle, moving you and your business from survival through success to significance.

Your business should produce both time and money, not just money. This book helps business owners make more money in less time, get back to the passion that brought them into business in the first place, and build a business they can enjoy for decades.

Do you want to get off the treadmill? Do you have freedom? Read Making Money Is Killing Your Business and build a business you'll love that also gives you a life of Significance. The Random Hope Strategy of Business doesn't work. You get what you intend, not what you hope for.

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About the Author

Chuck Blakeman Blakeman is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, best-selling business author and world-renowned business advisor. Chuck has built ten businesses in seven industries on four continents. Through 3to5 Club, Chuck now uses that experience to support business owners and founders, to build productive, profitable companies that operate well even when the leader is regularly somewhere else. 3to5 Clubs are located all over the world and are designed to help you stop trading hours for money, and build a business that makes money while you’re on vacation. Each month we cover an essential tool for building a business while also building your network. It is a unique Community where members are committed to two things: building a mature business in just 3to5 years and helping you do the same.

Mr. Blakeman began his career in the U.S. Army, followed by 13 years service in non-profit leadership development. He started and grew five small businesses, including one sold to the largest consumer fulfillment company in America. He helped lead three other companies between $20-$100million through repositioning in the Marketing Support Services industry.

Mr. Blakeman is a results leader, not a thought leader, and has three decades of experience leading companies in marketing, import/export, fulfillment, call centers, website development, printing and direct mail processing. He now also exports agricultural products and minerals from Africa to the world.

Recent appearances include Entrepreneur Magazine, CNNMoney.com, NYTimes.com, Bizjournals.com, CoBiz Magazine, Home Business Magazine, keynote speaker at MFSA/Maui, and many others.

Chuck’s most recent book, Why Employees are ALWAYS a Bad Idea is also highly acclaimed. It was named a Top Ten Business Book of the Year . It focuses on the emerging work world in the Participation Age, where everyone has a brain, not just the guys at the top. Chuck shows how companies of any size and in all industries are succeeding in inviting everyone to participate in building a great company. The future is now. Companies that embrace the Participation Age will thrive, and those that don’t will be left behind.

Chuck is a rare combination of successful founder, owner, speaker and author who inspires leaders and provides simple tools to transform their business. He is a regular convention speaker, TEDx presenter, weekly Inc. Magazine contributor, business advisor, and non-profit board member. Recent speaking appearances include Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, and regularly across the US.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crankset Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984334327
• ISBN 13: 9780984334322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 303